Last week, we offered a short summary of Keats’s ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, although given how long the poem is, ‘short’ here wasn’t all that short. Still, now it’s time to offer some words of analysis of this, one of Keats’s most celebrated poems. Keats reportedly took just two or […]
‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is one of a series of odes the Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821) wrote, and one of the most famous. Before we offer a brief summary of Keats’s poem, it might be helpful to read ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ here in a separate tab, and follow […]
‘Infant Sorrow’ is the counterpart to ‘Infant Joy’: whereas ‘Infant Joy’ appeared in William Blake’s 1789 volume Songs of Innocence, ‘Infant Sorrow’ was published in his 1794 volume Songs of Experience. Before we proceed to an analysis of Blake’s poem, here’s a reminder of ‘Infant Sorrow’. Infant Sorrow My mother […]